Recent & Upcoming Talks

Princeton English Department’s Americanist Colloquium. April 23rd, 2025.

“Modernism and the Therapeutic Imaginary.” Invited Speaker. Modernist Studies Association. Chicago, IL. November, 2024.

“Modernism and the Maladaptive Mind.” Roundtable co-organizer and presenter. Modernist Studies Association. Chicago IL. Nov.8, 2024.

TBD. "The Therapeutic Turn in Contemporary Media, Culture, and the Arts." Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. New York, Oct 17-19, 2024.

“Chasing Epiphanies: The Search for a Better Moment in Contemporary Fiction.” “What Was Contemporary Literature?: An International Conference.” Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Germany, September 26-28, 2024.

In conversation with Sheila Heti, Mahindra Humanities Center Writers Speak Series, Nov. 30, 2023

Research symposium, Concordia University, Montreal QC, November 2023.

“Modernist Health Humanities” seminar co-organizer and participant, with Lisa Mendelman and Elizabeth Sheehan. Modernist Studies Association Conference, Brooklyn NY, October 29, 2023.

“Unlearning Culture.” Penn State University, October 16, 2023.

“ ‘Unlearning’: The Rise of an Aesthetic-Therapeutic Ideal..” University of Heidelberg, June 2023.

“ ‘Unlearning.” Maison de la Création et de l’Innovation, Université Grenoble Alpes, June 2023.

Conversation with Elif Batuman, Mahindra Humanities Center, Writers Speak Series, Nov.17, 2022.

In conversation with Elif Batuman, Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge MA, March 26, 2022.

“Therapeutic Redescription.” Harvard Thinks Big. Visitas. Cambridge, MA. April 25, 2022.

“Making Happiness: from Eupathics to Psychotropics” Modernist Studies Association, Between the Acts Conference.” Panel on modernism & self-care. April 8, 2022.

“Polypharma Fiction.” Panel on Contemporary American Literature and Mental Health. Modern Language Association, January 7, 2021.

“On Discovery.” Seligman Symposium. Center for Positive Psychology. University of Pennsylvania, August 11, 2020, via zoom.

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN, March 26, 2020 (postponed).

Harvard Book Store, in conversation with Louis Menand. January 31, 2020.

“The Sociology of the Discovery” for The Institutions of Modernist Canon Making.” Modernist Studies Association, Toronto ON, October, 2019.

“The Liberal Arts in Academia.” Liberal Arts College, Concordia University. Montreal, QC. September 20, 2019.

“Therapeutic Redescription.” Modernist Studies Association, Columbus Ohio, November 8-11, 2018.

“The Shadow University of Self-Help.” Modernism and Globalization Research Group, Rutgers University, April 20, 2018.

 “Charisma,” Society for Novel Studies, Ithaca NY conference on “Novel Theory,” 31 May – 2 June 2018.

“Practicality Hunger,” Boston University, February 2018.

“Sustainable Self-Help.” Modernist Studies Association. Amsterdam NL. August 13, 2017.

“Advice Without Agency.” Modern Language Association Conference. January, 2017.

“Negative Visualization: Modernism’s Survival Tips for the End Times” Harvard, Mahindra Modernism Seminar. November 27, 2017.

“Practicality Hunger,” Novel Institutes. Stanford Society for Novel Studies. May 19-20, 2017.

“Getting Real: Fiction Fatigue and the New Advice” Inaugural Brandeis Novel Symposium on “Novel Reality.” April 28, 2017.

“So Many Books, So Little Time.” Liberal Arts College, Montreal, Quebec. March 16, 2017.

 “Industries of Pseudo-reading.” Modernist Studies Association Roundtable, “Industries of Reading.” November, 2016.

“Book(less) History.” Mahindra Humanities Center, History of the Book at Harvard Seminar, Harvard University, September 22, 2016.

 “Textual Aid for a Post-Counsel Age.” “Counsel in Context: Literature, Advice, Modernity.” American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle, WA March 26-29, 2015.

“The Advice Columnist as Textual Critic.” “New Sociologies of Literature.” American Comparative Literature Association, Toronto, ON, April 5-7, 2013.